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JAMES Booth convincingly argues the case in favour of England’s pre-eminent postwar poet in Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love.

A RETURN to the world of Frank Bascombe reveals Richard Ford’s great skill for portraying contemporary America.

RICHARD Flanagan and William Faulkner were obliged to start from first principles, and it shows.

THE Narrow Road to the Deep North was a novel I managed to be hilariously wrong about.

NOT since The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) has Peter Carey written a novel so concerned with cultural identity.

ROHAN Wilson’s To Name Those Lost shows fealty to the gothic intensity of Cormac McCarthy but soon shakes its coat of earlier influence.

MARTIN Amis has returned to form in his superb new novel, The Zone of Interest, in which he takes on the Nazi death camps.

THE narrative of The Bone Clocks is built to the proportions of an outsized ambition. It houses a multitude of ideas and inventions.

THE short stories and novella that launched Ian McEwan’s career struck the English literary scene like punk struck music and fashion.

JOAN London’s long-awaited new novel, The Golden Age, is unlikely in outline: a love story set in a real-life Perth polio clinic in the 1950s.